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IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM)

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Support for CSM assimilating correctly a Safeguarded Copy session that has a recovery relationship onto an new CSM server

CSM should be able to assimilate correctly a complete Safeguarded Copy session that has a recovery relationship established and is in "Target Available state onto a new from scratch installed CSM server. Currently CSM is only able to assimilate th...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

CSM Option to Send Alert When Session Returns to Normal Status

We would like the option to have CSM send an alert when sessions return to a Normal status after they have gone to a Warning or Critical status.
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Need SNMPv3 support in CSM

My customer is moving his monitoring tool to SNMPv3 and he would like to monitor CSM also with SNMPv3 so he's requesting CSM to support SNMPv3.
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

Multiple Flashcopies per volume set.

Allow multiple Flashcopies to be taken that aren't directly tied to a set of volumes at Flashcopy point and time. Take the Flashcopy and use space from the storage pool, allow for multiple copies to exist for each replication session.
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Flashcopy - restart or reset Flashcopy to original date/time

Flashcopy currently is a one and done function. It would be useful to have the ability to start over or reset a Flashcopy to it's original point and time. For example take a flash copy on Day 1 at noon, run your DR exercise, application test, vend...
about 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Manually importing global mirror relationships from IBM Storwize products to IBM CSM without deleting consistency groups

Should have capability to import existing Global Mirror relationships to Copy Services Manager.
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

Allow CSM ports on z/OS to BIND to specific VIPA

Copy Services Manager has multiple listening ports. By default on z/OS it listens on ALL VIPA addresses defined on the system. This causes audit failures from TCPIP security scans. We would like to be to specify in xml or properties file the VIPA ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 1 Future consideration

An error Icon should overlay the question mark

In a CSM HA Configuration (Standby Server is configured) it is the case that if this server is down that a question mark is displayed at the top menu (e.g. at the “Storage” Menu bar”). So far so good.If now an outage happens (e.g. from one storage...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 2 Future consideration

Use the logged on User ID from the CSM GUI for authority checking rather than the STC user from the CSM Server

If an update is made from the (e.g.) portpairing.csv from the CSM Web Interface (Version 6.2.8) there is no security checking whether if this user has the necessary permission to update this file. The update will be with the STC User from the CSM ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 6 Not under consideration

The Menu ?DS8000 Paths? should include the Location column

If you add a storage connection at the “Storage System” menu you are able to give the new storage system a “description” at the Location column. This is very helpful to distinguish the storage systems. It would be very helpful to display this colu...
over 3 years ago in IBM Copy Services Manager (CSM) 0 Future consideration

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